While making TechChase live I have gone through various phase.I will share some DO’s and DON’T regarding that.First thing i did is to setup wordpress locally.

As  I want lot of changes to be done in blog I want to setup wordpress locally.

WordPress Local Setup:

1.First and most required to setup wordpress locally is server.I used XamppLite sever very simple and quick installation.You can downlod it here.

2.Extract Xampplite to your C:

3.Click on C:xampplitexampp_start.exe to start server

4.Open browser and type http:\localhost you can configure your xampp  using this

5.download and Extract WordPress 2.7 to C:xampplitehtdocs  folder

6.Using http:\localhost–>phpAdmin Create empty database for wordpress. Follow following settings.

7.Under C:xampplitehtdocswordpress folder there is wp-config-sample.php file.

8.Open it in notepad and edit database name, username and password with your wp database details and save file as wp-config.php you can use default username: root and password: blank

9.Access http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php in browser

10.This will setup your wordpress locally..Please note randome password generated for admin account

11.Now you can access Admin by http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin

for accessing blog http://localhost/wordpress

12.You can even export files from you live wordpress blog and import it local wordpress

WordPress Setup Don’ts

1.Never delete database…I have spend full 3 days in editing updating my local WP blog..and at  end by mistake deleted database…All efforts wasted

2.Never change general setting (WordPress address (URL)) under admin menu (Settings->General)
Same thing happened with this changed localhost to my site name  http://techchase.in  and then local site unaccessible..

3.Use wordpress database plugin for taking backup..

Hope so these tips will help you setup wordpress easily..Don’t repeat  mistakes

Refer New WordPress post not saved or published? article if you face problem on live hosting.

At last again after weeks effort Techchase is live.

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